punctus

== English == === Etymology === From Medieval Latin punctus (“punctuation mark”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpʌŋktəs/ === Noun === punctus (palaeography) The basic dot (‧) used to end a sentence in medieval punctuation (ancestral to the full stop/period). === See also === punctus circumflexus punctus elevatus punctus flexus punctus interrogativus punctus percontativus punctus versus == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpuːŋk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpuŋk.tus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of pungō (“to prick, puncture, punch”). ==== Participle ==== pūnctus (feminine pūncta, neuter pūnctum, adverb pūnctim); first/second-declension participle pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked. marked with points; stippled. stung, bitten, pinched, having been affected sensibly. vexed, annoyed, grieved, troubled, disturbed, having been vexed or annoyed. ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ==== Noun ==== pūnctus m (genitive pūnctī); second declension (Late Latin, New Latin; also mathematics) point Alternative form: pūnctum n ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. === Etymology 2 === From pungō + -tus. ==== Noun ==== pūnctus m (genitive pūnctūs); fourth declension a pricking, stinging, puncture (dubious) a point Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.68, Jean Hardouin, editor, Caii Plinii Secundi historiae naturalis libri XXXVII […], volume 1, published 1741, Paris, p. 107: Hae tot portiones terrae, immo vero, ut plures tradidere, 15mundi punctus: ( neque enim aliud est terra in universo: ) Notae. [...] 15. Mundi punctus.] Acutum illud est Senecae dictum, lib. I. Natur. quaest. in prooem. pag. 831. Hoc est illud punctum, quod inter tot gentes ferro & igni dividitur. O quam ridiculi sunt mortalium termini, &c. (Medieval Latin) punctuation mark ===== Usage notes ===== (point): In older editions of Pliny mundi punctus (with punctus as a 4th-declension noun) appears, while in more recent editions it is mundi puncto (with punctum or punctus as 2nd-declension noun); compare Citations:puncto. ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Synonyms ===== (a pricking): pūnctiō (a point): pūnctum ===== Descendants ===== → English: punctus === Related terms === === References === “punctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "punctus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “punctus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[4], London: Macmillan and Co.